Sunny Garden Butterfly and Host Plant Presentation

Class Description

Join Extension Master Gardener Interns Lesli Mangeri and Bonnie Packer for a short presentation to learn about local butterflies and the plants that host them. Our interns will review host plants, lifecycle of the evolution of the egg to butterfly and some other points of interest regarding butterflies. While you are there, tour the rest of the Sunny Garden, and our Shade Quarry Garden further down the Bon Air path.

Eastern tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) butterfly in July on Midwest
native Echinacea purpurea var. purpurea (purple coneflower).
Photo © Mary Free